2-Letter Words Starting with L

""LEPROUS affected with leprosy, also LEPROSE, LEPROTIC""

""A person with a slender, thin, or frail body.""

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) the first stage of the prophase of meiosis during which the nuclear material becomes resolved into slender single-stranded chromosomes [from lepto- + -tene, from Greek tainia band, filament]""

Lesson

English word

See white blood cell .

Pl. leukotomies also leucotomies Chiefly British A prefrontal lobotomy.

Levator

Levodopa

Levulose

Lewisson

Spirit-ed creations (wordplay)

Blend basil into alcoholic drinks

Martini and gimlet, for example

English word

Libeccio

Defamatory, in Dover

See evil bullies outside being defamatory

Defamatory

Bolivar, for one

Bolivar, for one

Bolivar's epithet

Balancing small party quota

Balancing

Recklessly rob titles for opera books

Gilbert works

Operatic texts

""Having the form of liber, or resembling liber.""

Licensor

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, lichens; abounding in lichens; covered with lichens.""

Dried-root candies

Local Cockney actor poolside

Powerful local anaesthetic

Cover charged by month can sap

Most vital element

Vital force

They're only out for your savings

Ship's equipment.

They rescue people

Lifework

Ligation

Having light; lighted; not dark or gloomy; bright.

""Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.""

Ligroine

A mineral prepared from fruit (sound)

Luray Caverns material

Tie lemons up in sedimentary rock

Study of lakes and ponds

Limonene

Limonite

LIMONITE a major ore of iron

Long way to go (wordplay)

Long ride (wordplay)

A way to go by

Limuloid

Linalool

Delineation; a line or lines.

Linkwork

A salt of linoleic acid.

Linoleum

Linstock

Mothers with pride (wordplay)

Females with pride (wordplay)

Raisers of cubs

Lioniser

Assigning great social importance to

Acclaiming return of number one Liberal, I celebrate

Lionizer

Lionize

Lipocyte

Pl. lipolyses (-s z ) The hydrolysis of lipids.

Decomposition of fat

Pl. lipolyses (-s z ) The hydrolysis of lipids.

LIPOSOME a microscopic globule composed of lipids

Liposome

""The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; also, the capacity of becoming liquid.""

Say Scotch on the rocks is sweet

Sweet drink on the rocks (wordplay)

Pontefract cake ingredient

Liquor

""LISSOME lithe, also LISSOM""

Book reviewer

Critic.

Homeliest characters can be graceful

Toned graceful model hostile to me

Article in case stuck in tree, not stiff

""The science which treats of rocks, as regards their mineral constitution and classification, and their mode of occurrence in nature.""

""A white pigment consisting of a mixture of zinc sulfide, zinc oxide, and barium sulfate.""

Lithosol

""The operation, art, or practice of cutting for stone in the bladder.""

Law-practicing reptile (wordplay)

One in legal dispute

One in a court battle.

Quick to take action (wordplay)

Quick to sue

Keen to pursue lawsuits

Coastal regions.

Twirl over for the leafy moss

Flowerless plant

Seaweedlike plant

Farm animals exist to breed

One source of rural income.

(Domestic) animals in general

Loadstar

A stack of rock is magnetic

Magnetite possessing polarity.

It attracts lots to Tyneside

Zeitgeist and "umami," linguistically

Karaoke and smorgasbord, linguistically speaking

Weltschmerz and schadenfreude, for example

Hail an object's dislikes (wordplay)

Disinclination

Can't like revolting

A hole most dreadfully repulsive

Liberal profanity a few find offensive

Lobation

Lobbygow

Lobbyism

Influential Washington group

Some D.C. workers

Capitol Hill wheeler-dealers

Surgical removal of a lobe from any organ of the body (such as the lung or brain).

Lobeline

Scumbag eating zero degree stew

Stew of meat, vegetables and hardtack

A stew formerly eaten by sailors

Lobster

Lobstick

""Made up of, or divided into, lobules; as, a lobulated gland.as, a lobulated gland.""

Old Celia's moving around in a restricted area

Restricted diet instead missing even elements

Boozer on other side limited to one place

Localise

Localism

Localist

Localite

Confined to one area

Localize

Readily found

See small particles in positions

Film credits list

Places, sites

They indicate places where Clovis ate, perhaps

Lockbox

Lockdown

Fable about smoked salmon (wordplay)

Hair stylist's other job (wordplay)

Keystone ring wearer (wordplay)

Lockstep

Anti-Tammany reformers of 1835.

Match-lighting party of 1835

Friction matches

Moved, jocularly

Locomote

Relating to power of moving mad vehicle!

Relating to shifts of temperature in unusually cool room

Plants that make cattle crazy

Problematic plants for ranchers

Plants that produce the intoxicant swainsonine

Locution

Guides for ancient mariners.

Navigational reference points

Sources of inspiration

Lake poems with quality must be a magnet

Iron-attracting magnetite

It was used to make the first compass

Porter's room intended, say, for deposit of monies

Doddery old chaps going in to get accommodation

Accommodations

Lodgment

Lodicule

Impressive height; nobility (of manner)

Quality of altruistic motives

Stature without bags of money

Verse ()

Slide-rule number

In math, it may be common or natural

Slide rule's basis

Using reason

Following reason

Close to home occupied by soldier with good reason

Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, for example

Logicise

Logicise

Logicize

Logicize

Task of movement and supply of troops

Science of moving troops.

How-to-get-it-done science

Type of statistical distribution

Logogram

Programmer's graphic symbol (wordplay)

Sign of trademark diagram

Anagram, for example

Puzzle based on recombination of the letters of a word

Logomach

An argument about words.

Dispute concerning words

Leave Mum in lake and start your verbal sparring

1999's winning word: Verbosity

Nonstop talkativeness

Excessive talkativeness, perhaps incoherent

The Golden Arches, for McDonald's

Company emblems

Engaged in political skulduggery

Swapped political favors

Took part in a lumberjack contest

Lumberjack, at times (wordplay)

Exchanger of political favors

Political favor-monger

Perhaps ageless ethnological weave

Minimum clothing (wordplay)

Fig leaf successor (wordplay)

Teens at a food court, maybe

Group gathering for no reason

Ones hanging around

Wild lion and tiger lurking

Dawdling toiler drunk on gin cocktail

Just hanging around

Rewards for kids

All-day suckers, for instance

Candies on a stick

Laugh out loud, striding along and bounding about

Drags one's feet

Dawdles

Prizes for good children

Savalas props

Lomentum

Adjective for Crusoe.

One, as numbers go

Tell one is strangely more miserable

Lonesome

Huey's craft

Vessels on vessels

Fuselage parts

Tiny glove (anagram)

Ripe old age

Duration of service

Living a long time; of great age.

Classical music fans

Classical musicians Slang.

Classical musicians: Slang.

Longhand

Longhead

Some ranch cattle

Range sight

Lonestar beeves

Viking "mead hall," for example

Beetle with a lengthy narrow body

In a yearning manner

With passion

With desire

Word often paired with latitude

A concern of mariners

Navigator's concern.

Bank annoyance

Longship

Arctic birds.

Longueur

Lookdown

Stupidity figures in toilets

Silly stuff

Loophole

Escape mechanisms (wordplay)

Hacker's targets

Ways out of contracts

Warm-up deliveries

A lack of strictness

John senses abnormal laxity

Relaxed condition

Masseuse's task

Relaxing and letting go

Not being tight any more

Lopper

Lopstick

Cause of high telephone bills.

Talkativeness

Prolixity.

Lordly

Walk all over novice inside school for the little chiefs

Titled British dignitaries

Noble potencies

Eyeglasses with no letter 'g' (wordplay)

Pair of glasses with a handle

Specs on a stick

Loricate

Birds, we hear, transport poet

Colorful parrots

Whistle-blowers (wordplay)

Stage door johnnies.

Gay rakes

Poor retirement plans (wordplay)

Ventures broadcast re T. S. Eliot

Low visibility figure

Layabouts' dream country

Idyllic spot

Left to love and lust outrageously in this bed of roses

Louden

Loudly

Noisemaker of sorts

Braggart with noisy oral orifice

Ear-splitting yakker

Round American splits garden tool turning over plant

The state or quality of being lousy.

LOUTISH ill-mannered and coarse

Soaring honeymooners (wordplay)

Small African parrots or romantic couple

Openly affectionate couple

Prettiest

Romantic keepsakes of old

'Flowing hair', as the canal flight fan said (wordplay)

'Mud in your eye' coming up without a lot of speed for old dandy's curls

Lovevine

Lowball

Small, UNLIKE THIS!

Some letters perhaps from minor lawsuit

Drop the bag ... not like THAT!

On the bottom.

At the bottom of the list.

At the very bottom

High living is not for him

Scot who touched down in the valley (wordplay)

Flat dweller

Lowlifer

Lowlight

A lowly state.

Lack of status

Bird during row starts to show some humility

Humility

Lowness

Sporty cars with dropped chassis

Customized cars with diminished ground clearance

Cars close to the ground, and a hint to the ends of the starred answers

""Geography a rhumb line or curve on the surface of a sphere intersecting all meridians at the same angle; hence, the course of a ship or aircraft following a constant compass direction. ; loxodromic,""

Loyalism

Nonrevolutionaries

Stalwarts

Not, perhaps, 15 down sort of neckwear

Ties alloy into allegiances